RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT February 27, 2022
CV World
Cases: The planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now
over 435 million at 435,758,977 cases, 63,670,751 of which are
active, 372,088,226 closed with 366,120,660 recoveries (98.40%), and passing
the 5,900,000 barrier 5,967,666 deaths (1.60% )to continue the low trend of
increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death
percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
CV USA Cases: Total
cases now passing 80 million at 80,567,757 with 26,401,648 active cases
of which 8279 are serious or critical, (15,517 on 12/12) (back to steady
decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of
the Omicron variant) to .031 % of active cases (back to back steady decreases
despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of the Omicron
variant and to increase the reduction from the 29,271
peak on 12/31/2020 to 20,992, 54,166,109 closures with 973,119 deaths (1.80%)
and with 53,092,990 recoveries (98.20%). Our death rate percentage is .20% higher than the world’s death rate.
Standing: On a deaths
per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2912 the U.S.
ranks behind Peru (6242) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in
deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give
Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria (5171), Hungary (4548), Romania (3330), Brazil
(3019), and Poland (2947) and slightly higher than Argentina (2749), Columbia
(2678), Belgium (2580), Italy (2563), Mexico (2424), Russia (2403), UK (2354),
Chile (2177), Spain (2125), Portugal (2073), France (2019), Ecuador (1947),
Bolivia (1795), Sweden (1678) that never closed its economy
down like we did, and Switzerland (1508).
US Vaccinations:
As of 02/27/22 551.9 million doses, 434,122 per day last
week ( 75.6%) of population now vaccinated with at least one shot)
and in California 55,426 per day (which means at least 81.7% of the
population of California has received at least one shot) which many believe is
necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe
that 90% is required). In California 71,306,336 total doses have
been given (83.2% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.3%),
California has moved from 12th to 11th
of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a
percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 70.2%% of its population
fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 64.2% and has moved from 12th
to 10th in terms of the percentage of the population fully
vaccinated compared to other states (nothing like a recall election to get
Newsom’s attention and performance).
Non CV
News: Watching Putin’s outbursts is causing concern over hit mental state
as he has ordered his nuclear arsenal to a “combat ready state” ( sure hop the
Hot Line between Moscow and the Swamp is working 24/7 glitch free); the former
Miss Ukraine is aping what many Russian women did in WWII—joined the armed
forces to kill the invading Germans to join Ukraine’s armed forces vowing to
kill all Russians who cross the border: Biden apparently despite soaring oil
prices and the Russian invasion of Ukraine still has his head in the sand
calling for more renewables, still buying oil from Russia and ignoring the obvious
fix—increasing domestic oil production; while the world seems to be going in a
Hell and a handbasket Biden is holed up in his Delaware home most likely
resting; BP which has operated with Russian interests in Russia for 30 years is
severing its relationship Rosneft, a large Russian oil company; Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine has finally woken up Germany which is now increasing its
defense spending above 2% of its GNP; maybe the ordinary Russian is fearful of
the sanctions as Japan has joined countries blocking Russia for Swift as
Russians are flocking ATM’s to withdraw cash; in Minnesota, the Blues are
proposing a rate hike on taxes for upper income earners which is meeting resistance
which the political cartoonist so aptly portrays while inflation rages:
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey
Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through February 25,
2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly
persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 383 shot of whom 83 have
died while 2021 shootings numbers compared to 2020 are 4544 to 4248 and deaths
are 846 compared to 797.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a video recording of “Everyday People” by Sly and
the Family Stone; the fact that you are viewed as a sophic and a quote by
George Washington on the advisability of term limits for presidents, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
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1. International NGO
Day—celebrating since this day in 2014, the great work performed by
nongovernmental and nonprofit organization toward the betterment of society often
far more effectively and efficiently than our often-bloated government
bureaucracies.
2. No Brainer Day—created by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith
in August 1995 and first celebrated on the day in 1996 to promote the
accomplishment of tasks that require little thought and are easy to perform.
3. 1969 Number
1 Song—the number 1 song in 1969 on this day was “Everyday
People” by Sly and the Family Stone on a
run in that position for 4 weeks to join
15 other number 1 songs (2 of which were by the Beatles to equal the same
number in 1968) and 7 other acts that
hit the charts at Number 1 for the first time. Here is a video recording of Sly
and the Family Stone performing “Everyday People”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc.
Sly and the Family Stone was a San Francisco funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic
band from 1966 to 1983 and was the first major band to be racially and gender
integrated.
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sophic”
which means full of wisdom which is a trait rarely found in most politicians.
5. Outrageous Luxury
Is What Our Clients Want—celebrating the birth on this day in 1934 of noted French
interior designer and business and life partner of Robert Denning, Vincent
Fourcade who contracted AIDS and died on December 23, 1992 at age 58 while Robert lived on to die of natural causes
on August 26, 2005 at age 78.
On
this day in:
a. 1922
SCOTUS rejected a challenge to the 19th Amendment granting women the
right to vote in the case of Leser v. Garnet.
b. 1951
The 22nd Amendment to the
Constitution limiting the presidency to two terms was ratified.
c. 1973 The American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee to protest
federal actions against American Indians.
d.
1991 President George H.W. Bush announced that “Kuwait is liberated.”
e. 2015
Boris Nemtsov, a liberal politician and vociferous critic of Vladimir Putin was
assassinated by walking on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow with his Ukrainian
girlfriend by paid Checken assassins who failed to reveal who had hired them at
a time he was criticizing Russian military involvement in Ukraine.
Reflections on
limitations on presidential terms: “Under
an extended view of this part of the subject, I can see no propriety in
precluding ourselves from the service of any man who on some great emergency
shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public.” George
Washington in a letter to Marquis de Lafayette, April 28, 1788.
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